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Ships in a breeze
Draughtsman: Backhuysen, Ludolf
History note: Berlin, Kupferstich Kabinett der Staatliche Museen (Lugt 1612); sold by the Berlin Museum (Lugt 2482); Ingram (Lugt 1405a)
Height: 143 mm
Width: 190 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1963) by Ingram, Bruce Stirling, Sir
Grey wash
Brown ink
Brown wash
Pink wash
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Pen, brown ink, brown and grey and pink wash, with a hint of brown wash bordering it on all sides, on paper
Accession number: PD.98-1963
Primary reference Number: 4204
Lugt: 1612
Lugt: 2482
Lugt: 1405a
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Ships in a breeze" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4204 Accessed: 2023-02-04 08:15:09
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4204
|title=Ships in a breeze
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-04 08:15:09|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-4204
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp34/PD_98_1963.jpg"
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Accession Number: PD.566-1963
Accession Number: P.10225-R
Accession Number: PD.102-1963
Accession Number: 3168A
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